When you use gcj, you lose the benefits of JIT compilation and other such optimizations. This is why gcj might be slower than Oracle's JVM / OpenJDK. But I can

When you use gcj, you lose the benefits of JIT compilation and other such optimizations. This is why gcj might be slower than Oracle's JVM / OpenJDK. But I can see how compiling a simple program with gcj could make it faster.